Directors' Dealings

Barclays PLC
12 November 1999


                                         
                          
   NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329
                            
The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP &
ESOS) Employees' Benefit Trust (the 'trust') notified the
Company on 11 November 1999 that, on 8 November 1999, it
released 25,810 Barclays PLC ordinary shares and on 10
November 1999 it released 20,112 Barclays PLC ordinary
shares to participants who exercised their awards under
the Barclays Group Performance Share Plan ('PSP'). None
of the shares were released to a director of Barclays
PLC.

The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of
employees and former employees (and, in each case, their
families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.
Following these transactions, the trustee of all the
Barclays Group employees' benefit trusts holds a total of
9,120,527 shares in Barclays PLC in which the following
directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Mr D P Allvey, Mr M W Barrett, Sir Andrew
Large, Mr C J Lendrum, Sir Peter Middleton, and Mr J S
Varley.